Four days, three hunts and the pressure is on. Three hunters, each from different backgrounds and from various parts of the United States, made their way to the Texas Panhandle for a guided hunt with Fat Boy Outdoors.

Deer season is in full swing and off to a fantastic start. Two weeks into the season, hunters of all ages are enjoying the fruits of a wet spring and fall. Antler size is beginning to swing back to the outcomes of pre-drought years.
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Forty seconds that seemed like 40 minutes. That was how Ryan Milligan described the seconds slowly going by as his son Jonathan steadied for a shot. The father and son duo from Pampa opened Texas youth season the right way, by heading to the woods.

Each and every fall the leaves turn, the mornings begin to cool down, and the hair stands up a little higher on your neck.You know that it is close. The best two months of the year: deer season. We are so excited we can hardly see straight.

One shot. That is all it takes. It's something we are all guilty of, shooting without proper hearing protection. As I sat last week and took shot after shot at passing dove, my ears started to ring a bit.

Every year around mid-July we take to the woods to get ready for the upcoming deer season. We haul pound upon pound of corn to the deepest nooks and crannies of the Texas Panhandle in an attempt to attract the "monsters" of the High Plains.

OKLAHOMA CITY - Anywhere there is water and woods in Oklahoma, there are likely bobcats. Which means bobcats are almost everywhere. "There are lots and lots of bobcats," said Micah Holmes, spokesman for the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation.

Times are tight, right? But you still want to live a little? Our family plans wintertime getaways in New Mexico and Colorado several times a year, and always on a budget. This year we visited Taos, N.M.

MINNEAPOLIS - Doug Snyder won't forget the day he loaded a .22 rifle and shot his favorite dog, Polka Dot, at point-blank range.
He and his two teenage sons were walking along a forest road near their cabin east of Hinckley, Minn.

The Fort Worth Stock Show has something for every rodeo fan.
For those into reliving the sport's humble beginnings on Old West prairies, the show opened last weekend with the Best of the West Invitational Ranch Rodeo.

I had no shot at first as the buck inched into the narrow shooting lane with his nose, then his eyes — both fixed on me — above which extended a pair of tall, forked antlers, which my imagination insisted could have been a basket 6, obstructed as they were.

CARRABASSETT VALLEY, Maine - It was a perfect day for skiing at Sugarloaf on fresh powder left by a December snowstorm the day before. But something seemed amiss as Rick Tonge and his son rode a chairlift up the mountain.

BY RYAN SHELTON / For the Amarillo Globe-News
Had I taken the time to look at the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation fishing report, I would have seen: "All fishing slow."
Of course, those three words didn't tell the whole story.

Teams from the Texas Walleye Association gathered at Ute Lake, N.M., for the Annual Fall Tournaments.
Due to the unusually hot weather and warmer than usual water temperatures, the fish were scattered, with teams catching fish on all parts of the lake.

DALLAS - I made a classic error in judgment when I packed for a deer hunt east of Abilene on the last weekend in October. This ranch has managed lands deer permits. Rifle hunting is legal with MLDPs as early as Oct. 1.

The Easter Lions Club will stage its annual pre-pheasant season turkey shoot at 1-5 p.m. Nov. 20 southeast of the Easter Community Building.
Easter is about 12.5 miles south of Hereford on Farm-to-Market Road 1055.

In a 30-mile area of the Texas Panhandle, biologists found 76 white-tailed deer - but zero babies. Not far away, they located only three quail on a stretch of road where they would see 15 in a normal year.

ISLAMORADA, Fla. - Autumn in South Florida isn't normally regarded as high season for catching dolphin. But captain Brian Cone, who operates the 33-foot catamaran charterboat Contagious, doesn't appear to be having any trouble.

The Amarillo Gun Club will host a registered trapshoot Nov. 6.
The event, sanctioned by the Amateur Trapshooting Association, will feature singles, handicap and doubles trap.
Registration opens at 8 a.m., with singles to begin at 9 a.m.

SEATTLE - The steely-eyed glare of former Seattle Mariners star Jay Buhner would intimidate many pitchers on the mound, but on a recent morning in Puget Sound, the only thing quivering on the rocky bottom were the fish.